No, but Freddy and Ellen of our Santa Cruz chapter have propagated a bunch of unusual avocados. They are selling them sometimes in April. They have them grafted on Duke 7 rootstock from Brokaw. Maybe you might want to buy some from them.

sautesmom wrote:I was hoping to travel to the final scion exchange tomorrow and maybe get some unusual avocados, but I can't rationalize doing such a long trip, with the rain and all I have to do this weekend.

Does anyone know of any place that sells avocado scion wood?

You are from Sacramento, so I feel one should ask, are you looking for the more tropical Guatemalan types or the more hardier Mexican types ? Have you tapped into the CRFG Chapter there ? I do have some of the Mexican types, that are not common, and some not known commonly, though some, do not have spare scion wood yet, only plants, I just grafted last year.

If a branch breaks off someones Sir prize in a storm, flys through the air and stabs into your avocado tree and happens to graft onto!:)? I don't think anyone can be to blame for that. That's just good luck

Jason_AU wrote:If a branch breaks off someones Sir prize in a storm, flys through the air and stabs into your avocado tree and happens to graft onto!:)? I don't think anyone can be to blame for that. That's just good luck

Jason, thanks, I don't know about everyone else, but in these times, a good laugh and a little leveling perspective is worth its weight in gold.

David well in the end the patents are there to stop large scale commercial propagation without some compensation. If you wanted to make it so backyard gardeners could compensate you for breeding.finding a good variety you would be better with a paypal account and ask for $2 whenever someone got a graft to stick. Until then we might just have to keep hoping for those big storms that cause accidental grafting. Considering all the bad things that go on in the world every second or every day I'd still be able to sleep easy at night if a big gust of wind grafted some Sir Prize onto one of my seedlings